and ambrose-- and i remember mark twain was a leader of the anti-imperialists to leak and he proposed to change the stars with the schools when the united states began the imperial events in the time of president mckinley, who heard the voice of god saying you should stay silent from the danger of-- so they initiated a long career we will know and you know perhaps better than i. >> host: thank you very much, eduardo galeano, the author of "mirrors," stories of almost everyone. it is a wonderful book. it is one that you can't stop breeding, and it has been an honor to talk to you. i have wanted to do this for many years and it has been great that i have been able to do it. and, i am john dinges and i'm speaking with eduardo galeano, and we will end it there and thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. i forgot, absolutely forgot that i was in a tv studio. i was having a nice, talking conversation with a friend in a cafe. thank you. thank you. >> host: i enjoyed it. >> now political consultant dick morris, the former adviser to president clinton is the co-author of the book, "catastrop

there was no place for her like home if anybody was fortunate to grow up in lake tahoe the place mark twain calls the fairest place, to paraphrase on god's green earth, a very, very fortunate to have grown appear but tahoe is more of a metaphor for the happiness i saw it in my life like each and every one of us hear. i have my 96 roll father here tonight and let me read you a little bit about the family that were early pioneers in the tahoe area. i had these marked so it was supposed to work. i will come back to its. let's forget that for the moment. one of the reasons i wrote to this book about my life was that it endearing 60 i happened to be married to an asian wife who i am the recipient of an arranged marriage so that is something different. but in asian culture the year 60 represents the completion of a cycle and the beginning of the next phase of your life. i am hearing that and for me it was special to write about what had happened in my life up until that point* of reaching 60 and what it meant to me. one of the things that happened growing up at the lake i had an experience on a g

it was unveiled at the mark twain house and museum in connecticut. lego masterpiece. the 6-foot tall, 150-pound figure is complete with twain's familiar bow tie and mustache. >>> a traffic sign has been attracting a lot of attention in portland, oregon. this one says you better watch out for zombie strippers. you guessed right. it's the work of a computer hacker. but don't worry. the sign has now been switched off. abc 2 is working for you. we show you exactly how the shower of hope is helping homeless women. that's coming up on abc 2 news at 6, which starts right now. >> now abc 2 news at 6. >> good evening. i'm kelly swoope. thieves have long targeted valuable copper wire from homes and construction sites in the area. but one man in harford county is taking it one bold step further. as jeff hager reports, he burglarized a recycling center, hauling away as much as he could carry. >> caught on camera, a burglar rummaging for copper and brass from a remote recycling center in cardiff near the maryland- pennsylvania state line. the owner esti

bill: you are not going to run down mark mark twain.compared to you a legend, beck. [ laughter ] >> no, we are having a great time. and you know what? i tell you, bill, i am sensing a real sense of responsibility in america. i am sensing real duty in america. i think people came out and they are getting real hard playoffs but in the second half i am telling stories about the founding of america. bill: you saw my talking points memo. off the chart brilliant, correct? >> yes. bill: don't you wish you could do something like that? >> don't i? bill: just so -- it's so cohesive, pithy. >> you know what i like about you? humility. bill: i knew you were going to say that you are yourself, you know what i'm talking about? obama, i think he played it mostly smart. i think he helped the country, the united states by going over there. >> i think barack obama is brilliant. i think he is a very, very good communicator. i think he is great. bill: they love him over there. >> yeah. that kind of leads me to i don't like that. you know? bill: we need th

another tale of the family's land has mark twain parts of roughing it over its what or friday station as it was known. it served as a pony express for thompson and his beleaguered mail carriers as well as a place for grandpa pat to get a back door pleat of irish stew from sister maggie. one more word to my grandfather. i said no one can say for sure gene o'neill new my grandfather as the model for his 1939 hickey of the iceman cometh but he did resemble the central character in two important ways pact loved to talk and he loved to drink not necessarily in that order. so my irish relatives are certainly giggling and are designating with that one. later in life i went away to berkeley in the sixties which was a wild place to send a guy like me in the middle of the 60's. write a little bit boarding school. in 64i went away to st. mary's college in berkeley. and there were of parents sent their firstborn mails to save them from the storage of public education. it was too early to know said sacrilegious singers like madonna worth, school and not the panacea the presumed. the school wasn't

a likeness of mark twain was created. stands 6 feet tall and weighs 150 pounds. it looks like a regular human being. how >> you do that? >> i do not know. >> that is amazing. the pope is getting involved in the music scene. he will release an album in which he will sing and recite prayers. it is entitled "all moma mater." the backup will be a roman choir. the vatican -- is all for a worthy cause. proceeds will help fund music education for children worldwide. the next thing will be the cover of the "rolling stone." 5:52. 74 degrees. "good morning at the jcpenney appreciation sale. everyone gets an extra 15% off instantly with a coupon no matter how you pay. get an extra 15% off all brands for her. get an extra 15% off all men's brands. get an extra 15% off all regular and sale price items. all kids apparel, all lingerie, shoes and jewelry, all home items and kitchen electrics including cuisinart and kitchenaid. check your newspaper for bonus coupons or print them at jcp.com and see everything on sale. style, quality and price matter. jcpenney. >>> living in the d

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look at mark twain. this is 150 pounds and 6 feet tall, housed at the mark twain house and museum in connecticut. a lego version of the mark twain house has also been on display there since april. >>> guess who has a record deal? the pope! what's he singing, and when does that at all bum drop? the pope! t >>> the government's cash for clunkers program may be done after less than a week! it may have burned through a billion dollars already. the white house is scrambling to find more money, something like 200,000 new cars have been sold, as many as 50,000 more in the pipeline waiting for approval. >>> at least 24 people were killed in roadside bombs near shiite mosques across baghdad. the attacks happened right after friday prayers ended. police think they targeted the war shippers who were leaving. the deadliest happened in northern baghdad where 21 people were killed. >>> more government inspections, a better system for tracking food-bourne illnesses and new penalties. those are all part of a food safety

mark twain said it is not that the world is filled with fools, it is just that lightning is not distributedi promise you that that will be funny 1000 years from now. if the pessimist in twain actually lasted that long. his personal history is so fraught with a series of tragedies that belie his writings. we had the great fortune to interview russell banks, and we spoke about huckleberry finn, which he insisted was not only twain's best work, but also our iliad and hour odyssey. the we shared most of the same traditions with our european ancestors secreted those works, because of our place and who we are are grappling with other themes not present in those works. duane alone among writers in the 19th century had been able to fully integrate and deal with the question, and they were raised in space. the physical geography. i realized as he spoke those words and we were able to work them into our biography that he had in some way described the ark of my own professional career, that i had been engaged with not only the question who are we, who are these complicated people who like to call them

. >>> mark twain said that age is an issue of mind over matter.se days, many people seem to agree with twain. a new study finds most people believe they aren't old yet no matter how old they are. when asked what old is, people in their 20s said it was 60. middle aged folks said it was 70. seniors say you're not old until you hit 75. seniors have a great attitude about age. most said they didn't feel old. >>> it's not the advice you normally here from dentists, b giving kids a sweet syrup may help lower their risk of getting cavities. studies have shown the sweetener attacks organisms that cause cavities. kids who received the sweetener twice a day had a lower chance of developing tooth decay. >>> when we come back, tweeting while you travel. it can land you a free upgrade. >>> we're putting sweet tea to the taste test. which one pleases the most? my story is coming up. >>> and coming up in sports, tiger woods wins his own tournament. (announcer) the official $5 combo of summer is here. with curly fries and a drink for only $5. it's the $5 combo do

and, you know, as i said, mark twain knew it, the negative side requires no preparation.o i'm not sure these are well-prepared arguments, but they're certainly relentless. it's nice to hear what's wrong. maybe as 100 senators who dress up in suits in the morning we could come and spend the entire day talking about what's right. this is a great country, one in which we have a privilege to live in freedom, we have the privilege to be engaged in public debate. maybe let's spend a little more time trying to figure out what's right about this country and find out what kinds of solutions can unite us rather than divide us and find out how we get the best of each rather than the worst of both when we talk about the political parties. if we can do that, maybe we'll advance this country's interests. the fact is we all stand in the same hole. it's a very deep economic hole, the deepest since the great depression. and we'd all be well sraoeuzed, it seems to me, to find ways to begin working together to address these issues. mr. president, i yield the floor. i make a point of order t

. >>> wagon it mark twain who said that lies and damn lies and statistics?ve a statistics guy here who is a wizard with numbers and what they mean. he is here to help us at earnings central, aerial nelson is with y cnbc and tonight cysts through 150 cap stocks. tonight he looks awfully good. ari ariel, take it. >> thanks. we have 150 companies looking to report this week, companies that have fallen behind the s&p benchmark, but the analysts still have high expectations for these companies looking forward, as well as they have good dividends, there is good earnings forecasts, et cetera. >> okay. so your first company is? >> ups. so i can pull it up right here. and ups is actually interesting. the company has earnings forecasts with a forward fiscal year of over 23%. so the analysts -- >> earnings growth. and yet their stock has not gone up with the whole market in the recent rally. >> hour, if you see in the last couple days, you can see how it's lifted up and the expectation is, i guess, with the stimulus, with the recovery, ups should be on the forefront of

at the mark twain national wildlife refuge.. >> mason: i'm ant my mason. a reminder that cbs news is is presenting a one-hour special about walter cronkite tonight& at 7:00 p.m., 6:00 central. we hope you'll join charles osgood back here next sunday morning. captioning sponsored by cbs and johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org break from looking for a new house, let me take over.

at the mark twain national wildlife refuge.>> mason: i'm ant my mason. a reminder that cbs news is is presenting a one-hour special about walter cronkite tonight& at 7:00 p.m., 6:00 central. we hope you'll join charles osgood back here next sunday morning. captioning sponsored by cbs and johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org st: la year... when companies were laying off hundreds of thousands of workers... walmart was creating 30 thousand new jobs... all right here in america. save money. live better. walmart.: savif we don't act,tter. walmart.: medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-ex

series that takes 25 projects and looks in particular at large historical figures benjamin franklin, mark twain and a kid's guide series that looks at historical pieces that are wonderful for educators and home schoolers curriculum then redo serious nonfiction, a journalism piece is that we have anything from finance to pop culture and then we have a fun and the arts and entertainment titles so we embody the spirit of independent publishing. we're not associated with the university it is the parent company to independent publishers group which is a large distribution company that has a wide variety of publishers and chicago review process is the publishing and editorial harm. >>host: we're talking with elisabeth malzahn from chicago review presser. >> my name is michelle bodman i am from the fifth congressional district i have to ray brooks i am working on write now. of the first book is from that a constitutional scholar called liberty and tierney had been on "the new york times" best-seller list nine out of the last 10 weeks and has sold over 1 million copies and it is essentially a treatise

. >> fight club character, that's what it is, a pen name like mark twain. >> let's get over to brian.> let's look at what's clicking, what's hot on the web. we have the best taste for business coming up. you took a side -- >> unveiling it tomorrow, top states for business, whole data base there later in the afternoon. it would be fun to ask readers, what do you think the top state for business is and a lot of people are diving in. i suspect people are going in and voting for their own state versus what they do think. but you can sort of get a read on who read our special on this last year. >> right now texas. >> texas is leading but being followed by the other states, it tends to be states with high populations which leads me to believe, let's vote for the home state. >> people seem to like some of the suffering of celebrities, we have one in particular going through a tough time. >> you see that behavior a lot. steven baldman hwin had to file bankruptcy. >> talk about states quickly. >> we put up a slide show which state puts out the most welfare checks and california, there you go.

mark twain and there is hawk over there. what have we got here?his is the book that made me come to transform tommy into a book collector. i have been writing about books and doing these interviews, but i think i really began to develop, to acquire an antiquarian sense when i found this book in a garage, martha's vineyard. my wife's parents acquired this house with contents and the kabash had a case of old books in it. so, i went out there one day and opened up. it is not in the best of shape i have to say, but you know, we have a first printing of arguably one of the three or four great american novels of all times, scarlett letter by nathaniel hawthorne. you have something pretty interesting. i don't want to repair this. i want to leave it just the way it is. is a little loose, but again that is not a bad book to start your book collection with. then two others that i will show you briefly. gis also found in cape cod. my wife, god plesser. you have not met her here yet today but she is always very supportive of this. we were down at the cape, it

speaker, mark twain once said, if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. both might be true for those who rely on the national media for all the facts. for example, you might not know that the unemployment rate jumped to 9.5% last month, the highest rate in almost 30 years. or that the vice president in week admitted the obama administration misread the economy. or that president obama has given more than a dozen ambassadorships to individuals who raised a total of over $4 million for his campaign. or that while the media report that 46 million people lack health insurance, there really are only 10 million people who can't afford or can't get health insurance. the national media should report all the facts so americans are not uninformed or misinformed about major issues. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? ms. jackson lee: to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. jackson lee: thank you v